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Qatar’s $5Bn Barzan Project Financing Progresses
...pend on how competitive it is with the other sources of funding being tapped (MEES, 25 April). Barzan was originally planned for 2012 start‐up, but that date was put back to 2014. Barzan is a two‐train project and will initially produce 1.5bn cfd, although it can be expanded if needed. When in...
Volume: 54Issue: 29Published at Mon, 18 Jul 2011 -
UAE Hopes For $100Bn In Sustainable Energy Investment
...at it will invest $290mn via the DB Masdar Clean Tech Fund – founded with Deutsche Bank - in green projects around the world by 2014. It did not give details of specific projects, but said it had invested the fund’s first $60mn in China. “We are making a second investment this week. It could be be...
Volume: 54Issue: 29Published at Mon, 18 Jul 2011 -
Iran Set To Be Net Gas Exporter, Analysts Doubt Double Output Claim
...uble.” Another Iranian analyst, Mehdi Varzi, president of Varzi Energy consultancy, comments: “The gas forecast looks too high. Gas production is increasing, but an increase of 20-30% by 2014 is more realistic.” The West is tightening the economic noose round Iran. Extensive sanctions stop Iranian ai...
Volume: 54Issue: 28Published at Mon, 11 Jul 2011 -
Azerbaijan’s Socar To Acquire Bigger Stake In Petkim Refinery Joint Venture
...at carries Azeri Light crude from the Caspian Sea for export. The refinery in Izmir Aliaga is expected to be supplied with Azeri crude shipped from the Ceyhan terminal. The new refinery is estimated to cost $4bn and come into operation in 2014. It will be located next to Petkim’s existing pe...
Volume: 54Issue: 28Published at Mon, 11 Jul 2011 -
Kuwait’s SPC Wants 530,000 B/D Al-Zour Option, Parliament Starts Shell Probe
...hrain, scheduled for completion in 2014. It will avoid populated areas in both countries. If Bapco chooses the 450,000 b/d refinery expansion option, the pipeline’s capacity can be increased above 350,000 b/d bydrag reducing agent (DRA) injection. The main reasons for the new pipeline are to improve th...
Volume: 54Issue: 27Published at Mon, 04 Jul 2011 -
ADNOC’s New Chief To Focus On UAE Fuel Crises
...erational by its latest deadline of 2014. One of the reasons for the delays is the cumbersome decision making process of the conglomerates that own the field concessions. ADNOC has not yet announced who will replace Mr Suwaidi as head of the exploration and production division. The choice of which ex...
Volume: 54Issue: 27Published at Mon, 04 Jul 2011 -
Qatargas Seals 20-Year LNG Supply Deal With Argentina’s ENARSA
...e delivery of 5mn tons/year of LNG. This would be delivered to ENARSA’s Southern Cone LNG hub – an offshore LNG floating storage and regasification unit – for a period of 20 years. This deal, starting in 2014, is Qatargas’s first long term supply agreement with a South American country, and is ex...
Volume: 54Issue: 27Published at Mon, 04 Jul 2011 -
A Realistic Outlook For Iraq's Oil Production In 2030
...5mn b/d in 2015, 5.5mn b/d in 2017 and 7mn b/d till 2020. 7 Based on 2011 projections of Merrill Lynch, Iraq will have the capacity to produce 4.4mn b/d in 2015. 8 Based on the Iraqi government’s five-year development plan, which included plans for all economic sectors till 2014...
Volume: 54Issue: 27Published at Mon, 04 Jul 2011 -
Qatar Eyes Iran As Tehran Pushes Shared Oil Field Development
...possible for Qatar to produce an accurate computer model of the depletion rate, at a time when Doha has imposed a moratorium on future major development projects before 2014, while it studies the field. Tehran’s Concerns Tehran is concerned that the Qatari gas development – which is far in front of Ir...
Volume: 53Issue: 30Published at Mon, 26 Jul 2010 -
Eni Discusses Upstream Expansion In Azerbaijan
...ilure to clear the Burun acquisition with Asghabat before completing the deal. Eni also expects its gas availability to increase through its equity in Petronas offshore fields, where total gas production is intended to reach 8-10 bcm/y by 2014-15. However, there are doubts over the economics of the CNG ex...
Volume: 53Issue: 30Published at Mon, 26 Jul 2010 -
Vitol To Build New Oil Terminal In Cyprus
...elling its electricity generation by 2014, and has already compiled a shortlist of potential LNG providers. Meanwhile, the island’s electricity authority is currently seeking partners for the development, financing and operation of an LNG storage and regasification terminal – also at Vasilikos – expected to...
Volume: 53Issue: 30Published at Mon, 26 Jul 2010 -
ERC’s $2.35Bn Musturud Refinery Project Financing Nears Completion
...ntractors are Japan’s Mitsui and Korea’s GS Engineering, and the expansion and upgrading is being implemented as a lump sum turnkey (LSTK) contract. Completion is planned for 2014. Construction is scheduled to begin shortly after financial close, although some long lead time items have already been ordered....
Volume: 53Issue: 30Published at Mon, 26 Jul 2010 -
BP Sells Off Egyptian Assets To Apache To Help Fund Oil Spill Clean Up
...rst gas anticipated for late 2014. Other BP projects in Egypt include the Pharaonic Petroleum Company (PhPC) joint venture with the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS), which operates gas assets in the Nile Delta, and the Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company, a joint venture with EGPC. Its also su...
Volume: 53Issue: 30Published at Mon, 26 Jul 2010 -
IMF Expects Kuwait’s Economy To Rebound In 2010
...scal year ending March 31, eg 2007 refers to fiscal year 2007-08. 3. In 2006-07 KD2bn was transferred to partly cover the actuarial deficit of the Public Pension Fund. In 2008-09, KD5.5bn was transferred. KD1.1bn is budgeted for each year from 2010-11 to 2014-15. 4. Excludes investment income and pe...
Volume: 53Issue: 30Published at Mon, 26 Jul 2010 -
Oman To Request Proposals For New IPP At Sur
...wer ahead of summer peak demand in 2013, with full commissioning of the facility slated to coincide with summer peak demand in 2014. The site is ready for construction, with access to the sea and with gas available via an existing pipeline that feeds a nearby LNG plant, the company said. OPWP had or...
Volume: 53Issue: 30Published at Mon, 26 Jul 2010 -
Industry Questions Absence Of Major In Abu Dhabi’s Shah Gas Project
...train (MEES, 17 May). The plant will supply around 540mn cfd of gas into the UAE grid, with the bulk of the waste gas being toxic and corrosive hydrogen sulfide, by the third quarter of 2014. “The project can only be operated safely in a partnership with a major,” a UAE source told MEES. The te...
Volume: 53Issue: 29Published at Mon, 19 Jul 2010 -
Construction Begins On Ras Al-Zour Aluminum Smelter
...uor and WorleyParsons were sent a letter of intent for engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the bauxite mine and alumina refinery, which will have initial capacities of 4mn t/y and 1.8mn t/y, respectively, and will come online by December 2014. Fluor was meanwhile se...
Volume: 53Issue: 29Published at Mon, 19 Jul 2010 -
BP Courts Potential Gulf Investors
...so 14.67% in ADMA for the offshore sector (along with ADNOC, Total and Japan Oil Development Company). The former expires in 2014, and the latter in 2018 (MEES, 4 May 2009). It also holds an interest in the proposed Hydrogen project with Masdar (MEES, 28 June). The company’s other large holdings in th...
Volume: 53Issue: 28Published at Mon, 12 Jul 2010 -
Question Mark Over $6Bn ExxonMobil Qatar Petrochemicals Project
...xonMobil has a stake in four of Qatar’s LNG mega-trains, and two conventional North Field gas projects: 2bn cfd al-Khaleej, which is on stream, and 1.5bn cfd Barzan, which will start up in 2014. Barzan and al-Khaleej’s second phase will provide the domestic market with gas. The first phase of al-Khaleej su...
Volume: 53Issue: 28Published at Mon, 12 Jul 2010 -
MEES Agenda: Lebanon Pushes Reform Plan For Its Troubled Power Sector
...oduction costs. The reform plan is expected to result in a power sector with more than 4.0gw generation capacity by 2014 and 5.0gw after 2015. The plan envisages an investment of $4.87bn to raise capacity to 4.0gw. The government of Lebanon expects to invest up to $1.5bn, with $2.3bn coming from the pr...
Volume: 53Issue: 28Published at Mon, 12 Jul 2010